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Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)

c. 1740
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Overall: 15.7 x 21.9 x 18.8 cm (6 3/16 x 8 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
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The four figures on horseback are derived from prints French designer Jean Antoine Fraisse modeled after textiles, lacquers, and porcelains found in the collection of Louis-Henri, duke of Bourbon.

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These bottle coolers combine a traditionally European form based on silver models with designs and compositions that emulate Chinese and Japanese porcelain. Towering over the figures the luxuriant, vividly colored vegetation is characteristic of chinoiserie, imitations of East Asian decoration and design common in 18th-century European decorative arts. Distorted by the European imagination, these imitations were not accurate representations of the cultures from which they drew inspiration.
Two cylindrical white tin-glazed porcelain vessels feature flared rims and handles molded into human faces. Hand-painted enamel figures on horseback wearing green, yellow, and blue robes decorate the central body. One rider aims a bow while another looks backward, surrounded by small, scattered flowers and insects. Each vessel sits on a low, rounded base, highlighting the colorful, detailed figurative scenes against the clean white surface.

Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)

c. 1740

Villeroy Factory, Mennecy- Villeroy Factory

(French)
France, Villeroy, 18th century

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